Education & Skills Development

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This playbook has been designed to help operators unlock the potential of their startups to achieve meaningful impact and leverage this as a source of value.

As the digitisation of business continues to accelerate, increased adaptability and responsiveness are essential. In this course, workforce innovation specialist Sophie Wade guides you through the traits, skills, and strategies that you and your workers need to move your company forward.

The prospect of starting your own business from scratch can feel at once exhilarating and overwhelming. In this course, Dave Crenshaw helps you determine first which businesses are best suited to you as an entrepreneur, and then how to brainstorm ideas and identify which idea is a real opportunity.

Today's headlines are rife with stories of corporate corruption. These incidents are often pinned on the decision-makers at the top—and rightly so, in most cases. In this course, Bob McGannon delves into the subject of business ethics, explaining why it's critical to the success of your business—particularly in the era of social media—and how to refine your own ethical framework.

Learn how to make the world's #1 professional network work for you as a small business owner and for your growing company. In this course, small business owners Jess Stratton and George Maestri show how to establish a strong presence for your company, find and hire employees, and leverage LI for new business prospecting.

Linkedin Learning: In this course, Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang show you how deploying AI tools can boost your company’s competitive advantage and help you leapfrog over your competition.

This course provides leaders and managers of all levels with an introduction to the basic skills they need to lead their teams to success. Chris Croft explores the qualities of a great leader, theories of motivation, leadership styles, and core proficiencies like connecting with your team and effectively delegating work.

If you are looking to fund your business idea, it is important to understand how private equity differs from traditional lending and the difference between angel investors and venture capital firms. Jana outlines what milestones or stages of companies angel investors and VCs look for.

If you want to make your big idea even bigger, it's critical to shift your mindset. You need to define what you do best, communicate it to customers, and outsource any nonessential tasks. In this course, John Jantsch explains how to scale a startup into a successful business that is prepared for future growth.

Social innovation is the process of developing and deploying effective solutions to challenging and often systemic social and environmental issues. This course is for those who want to use social innovation and design thinking to achieve big results for their communities.

PWC put together a human capital report discussing the disruptive innovations are creating new industries and business models, and destroying old ones. New technologies, data analytics and social networks are having a huge impact on how people communicate, collaborate and work. As generations collide, workforces become more diverse and people work longer; traditional career models may soon be a thing of the past. Many of the roles and job titles of tomorrow will be ones we’ve not even thought of yet.

EdTech Hub are a global research partnership, with the goal to empower people by giving them the evidence they need to make decisions about technology in education.

Forbes conducts an analysis of the pros and cons of AI in the Classroom, and the role of EdTech Companies.

The possibilities of digital technology offer unprecedented ways to transform learning. New and established EdTech trends and solutions are embracing these possibilities more than ever, shaping the future of how we learn, teach, and structure educational models.

The World Bank Group is the largest financier of education in the developing world, working in 90 countries and committed to helping them reach SDG4: access to inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all by 2030.

OECD Indicators dictating more than 100 charts and tables – as well as much more data available online – provide key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; access, participation and progression in education; the financial resources invested in education; and teachers, the learning environment and the organisation of schools.